The Legal World Western railroads continued the resenta tion of evidence in Chicago before t e Inter state Commerce Commission through Sep tember and October in support of their con tention that a general advance in freight rates is necessary to maintain the standard of service demanded by the Government and the people. Commissioners Clements, Clark and Lane conducted the hearings. It took the shippers only a few hours to introduce evidence, but an imposing mass of statistics and testimony went into the record for the railroads. The shippers were represented by a number of attorneys who confined their efforts largely to attacking the railroad evidence rather than introducing original testimony for themselves. The hearings were concluded on Nov. 1. A ents W111 be heard by the Commission at Washington on Dec. 14, and after due deliberation, the Commission will announce what it is generally considered will be the most important decision ever emanating from it. Fifty or more of the countrlgy's leading railroad lawyers who met at ortsmouth, N. H., last summer (see 22 Green Bag 549), to discuss the interstate commerce law resumed the same conferences in New York City Oct. 25-28. After a long discussion, covering a part of every day's session, they decided to attack the Mann-Elkins act. The conference was secret, and it may be surmised that the attack will be made on the constitutionality of one of the following provisions of the law which are said to have been discussed: the provision by which rates lowered to meet water competi tion may not be increased except as specifi cally stated in the act; the clause in section 4 ithe long and short haul clause) giving the nterstate Commerce Commission power to relieve from the o ration of that section; the long and short c ause as a whole; section 9, which has to do with the maintenance of agents at all stations and the supplying by them of information to all shippers concerning freight schedules; and section 12. The exact course of procedure has been left to a com mittee of seven lawyers to be ap inted by Col. Henry L. Stone, General ounsel for the Louisville & Nashville railroad, who presided at the conference.
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in a modified form and employers’ liability shall be incorporated. The newly constituted Imperial Senate of China met for the first time on Oct. 3. A constitutional assembly of two hundred members has also been inau rated. In the Senate on Oct. 31 Prince Yu
The overturn of the monarchy in Portugal was accom lished with speed and with com paratively ittle bloodshed, in such a. manner as did credit to the humanity of the revo lutionary leaders. The ministers turned over their bureaus to the provisional government at once. The latter was constituted with Theophile Braga, ect and philosopher, as President,
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anti-clerical activity, but the government soon
settled down into its normal routine.
Necrolog]; — The Bench Ferguson, W. P.—At Shenandoah, 1a., Oct. 15, aged 67. Judge of superior court; dean
of the Page county bar. Flinn, Silas W.—At Milton, Vt., Oct. 3, aged 44. City court judge. F0x,]ames D.—-At St. Louis, Oct. 6, aged 65. Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court; born in Frederickstown, Mo., Jan. 23, 1847;
state circuit judge for some years; elevated to Supreme Court in 1902; lived in Jefferson City. ‘ Hockman, john H.—At Defiance, O., Oct.
13, aged 54.
Probate judge.
Larrabee, James M .——At Gardiner, Me., Oct. Mason, L.
The s cial session of the Colorado legis lature a journed Oct. 19 after lasting seventy one days. An initiative and referendum bill, a rimary bill, a registration bill and a railroad2 commission bill were passed.
A1 onso Costa, lawyer and
professor, as Minister of Justice, Dr. Berna dino Machado, a wealthy former professor of philosophy, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Antonio Luiz Gomes, Minister of Public Works, and Dr. Antonio Jose d'Almeida, Minister of the Interior. The opening days of the new régeme were marked by pronounced
24, aged 77.
Government and ‘Public Law
ng, a. member
of the Grand Council, stated that the entire nation from the highest to the lowest was agreed upon the necessity of the early estab lishment of a eneral parliament. The Senate, or Tzu C eng Yuan, recently voted to memorialize the throne to that eflect, and the Prince's speech is taken to signify that the throne will accede to the request.
Judge of municipal court. F.——At Vidalia,
La.,
Oct. 9,
aged 60. Former state secretary of Louisi ana; district court judge. Meily, Frank E.——At Lebanon, Pa., Oct. 2, aged 55. County judge. N es, Charles j.—At Los Angeles, Oct. 16, aged 9. Speaker of Massachusetts House for three terms; former state senator; later special
The Republican majority in the New Mexico constitutional convention have de cided that the judges of the Supreme Court and the members of the pro sed corpora tion commission shall be eected by the people; that the initiative shall be left out of t e constitution, and that the referendum
justice of South Boston district court. Perry, ]0hn.—At Algoma, Wis, Oct. 25. County judge. Putnam, Arthur A.—At Uxbridge, Mass.,
Oct. 21, aged 81. District court judge; one of oldest members of Harvard Law School Association; orator and writer.
